RuBisCO

RuBisCO is how plants grab carbon out of the air to build sugar. It is part of the engine of photosynthesis.

Fun fact

It is the most common protein on Earth by total mass.

Words to know

enzyme
photosynthesis
chlorophyll

NGSS alignment

MS-LS1-7Food, energy, and growth
MS-LS1-2Inside the cell

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P00875. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P00875.

About this surface

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